October is the Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
and to start a journey to develop emotional intelligence, we should first
understand the concept and its importance.
In simple
terms, emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise and manage emotions,
our own and from others, while, intellectual intelligence, measured by the IQ, refers to the
ability to learn, understand and process information. There is no strict correlation
between them, which means people can have high IQs and low emotional
intelligence, vice versa and even high score in both or neither.
The brain is the
command centre of our knowledge and emotions. Some evidence regarding this helps
us to understand the importance of emotional intelligence. Although there are many complex processes happening in
the brain, studies suggest that emotional intelligence is associated with two
regions - the limbic region (where our emotions live) and the neocortex region (commands higher functions such as information
processing). To achieve better awareness of emotional intelligence, we need to
have these regions working together. Knowing this, the first step
to put in practise is analyse our emotions and, with time and experience, it
becomes part of our behaviours.
“Experience is not what happens
to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you” Aldous Huxley
Tania Alves - volunteer in the project BCV - Building communities through volunteering funded by Erasmus+
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